Legal concepts

The legal concepts change with the legal history. There are developments in the theories and concepts of law (including in separate doctrinal areas) over the past decades which have effect in the tort, contract, crime, property and Administrative law .

Typical concepts in this subject are: harm wrongfulness, fault, responsibility, causation, liability, punishment, regulation, restitution, compensation, negligence, intention, fraud and moral luck.

One major theme is the interrelation between different branched of the law, and more generally, the claimed distinction between private and public law. Another major theme is the conflict between economic, justice and other types of explanations of different branches of the law, and the problems these explanations raise.

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